Ontario Geological Survey Surficial geology of southern Ontario; Ontario Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Release Data 128 Revised.

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2 For information on purchasing all publications, including digital data, contact: Publication Sales Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry 933 Ramsey Lake Rd., Level A3 Sudbury, Ontario P3E 6B5 Tel: (toll free inside Canada and the United States) Tel: (705) (local calls) Fax: (705) Users of OGS products are encouraged to contact those Aboriginal communities whose traditional territories may be located in the mineral exploration area to discuss their project. This publication can be downloaded from Miscellaneous Release Data 128 Revised Surficial Geology of Southern Ontario; by Ontario Geological Survey. In response to the demand for readily accessible and easily understood information on the surficial sediments of southern Ontario, the Sedimentary Geoscience Section of the Ontario Geological Survey released (October 2003) a GIS-based, seamless map of the surficial geology for southern Ontario. The map has recently been revised and updated and replaces the map previously released as MRD 128. This revised version now includes surficial geology information for the Bruce Peninsula as well as NTS sheet 31D/9 covering the Burleigh Falls area. A total of 125 maps, 36 of which belong to the Geological Survey of Canada, were used to create the seamless coverage. The original tiled maps were primarily at a scale of 1: Surficial geology map data is provided as ESRI ArcInfo coverages in geographic coordinate system NAD83, decimal degrees. The map data set consists of 7 coverages capturing information on Quaternary geological units; sand and gravel pits; linear features, such as eskers and bluffs; point features, such as drumlins and striae; as well as other polygonal coverages, including hummocky topography and moraines. Also included is a shaded relief image created using the digital elevation model (DEM) produced by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Other information provided includes a user document, which explains the GIS process and coverages; metadata; and a readme file, which includes a Getting Started section. Data are available in ArcGIS with a completed project file (.mxd), on 1 DVD. 2

3 Miscellaneous Release Data 128 Revised Surficial Geology of Southern Ontario GETTING STARTED Contents: - Introduction - Using the data with ArcGIS software - Using the data without ArcGIS software - Contents of the CD-ROM, map projections, scale and base map information - Data layers and attributes - Layers in the ArcMap project (.mxd) Introduction: This digital-map data product of the Ontario Geological Survey comprises 1 DVD-ROM disk containing surficial geology map data for southern Ontario, Canada. The map has recently been revised and updated and replaces the map previously released as MRD 128 (October 2003). This new version now includes surficial geology information for the Bruce Peninsula as well as NTS sheet 31D/9 covering the Burleigh Falls area. It is a geographic information system (GIS) based map of surface and near-surface geological materials, mapped at a nominal depth of 1 m. The data are useful for many purposes, including ground and surface water studies, other environmental studies, geotechnical investigations and mineral exploration. This getting started document is intended to help clients begin to use the data. The DVD also contains a more comprehensive user document in the documentation folder. Most of the documentation is in portable document format (.pdf), which may be read using Adobe Reader software available for download from Adobe s site at Using the data with ArcGIS software: The data may be accessed with ESRI ArcGIS 8.x, 9.x software, including ArcView 8.x, 9.x as follows: Copy the contents of the DVD to a new directory on your hard drive. The data will occupy about about 950 MB of space. For each newly copied folder right-click and uncheck the Read-only option check box. 3

4 The Fonts folder provided on this DVD contains a font file required by ArcGIS for symbolizing point features on the map. The font must be installed as follows, prior to viewing the data sets in ArcMap. In Windows 2000, open the fonts subdirectory in your winnt directory, or click start, select Settings, then select Control Panel. In the Control Panel open the Fonts folder, under File, click Install New Font and map to the fonts folder copied from the DVD or simply copy the QUAT.TTF file located in the fonts folder and paste it into the fonts subdirectory in your winnt directory. For Windows XP, the fonts folder is located in c:\windows\fonts. Click start, select Settings then select Control Panel. In the Control Panel open the Fonts folder, under 'File click Install New Font and map to the fonts folder copied from the DVD. Optional step, which may be omitted if desired. For ESRI ArcGIS 8.x, 9.x and ArcView 8.x, 9.x users, we recommend that the user build pyramids for the hillshade image provided on the DVD found in the hillshade folder. In ArcCatalog, right-click the raster data set (shade) located in the hillshade folder, then click build pyramids. Building pyramids allows the computer to open and process the hillshade relatively quickly. Please note building pyramids may take time. Use ArcGIS to open the project file map.mxd, found in the new directory. Open ArcMap and under file click open and select map.mxd and the index map should appear. The displayed index layer is called index polygon in the legend on the left side of the screen. The user can simply click on or off whatever layers he/she chooses. The legends for each layer can be viewed by clicking the plus sign next to each layer. Please note that at full map extent, regeneration time for some layers may be slow. The data can also be opened directly from the DVD without copying it to the hard disk, but it will take several minutes for the map to display on screen. To do this, use ArcGIS to open the project file map.mxd. The project files are found in the top or root folder of the DVD. Using the data without ArcGIS software: For clients who have non-esri GIS software, the DVD also contains e00 ArcInfo export files, which they may import. ESRI offers the free ArcExplorer version 2 software for download from their site at This GIS viewing software can be used to view the surficial geology map data. The newer ArcExplorer version requires shape files, and it will not work with the surficial geology map data which is in coverage format. 4

5 Contents of the DVD-ROM, map projections, scale and base map information: The Surficial Geology of Southern Ontario data release contains a complete set of data in geographic projection (decimal degrees, NAD 83 datum). Tables 1 and 2 (below) detail the contents of the DVD. The scale of the geology data is nominally 1: Most of the individual maps assembled for the Surficial Geology of Southern Ontario are of this scale, but some smaller-scale data was also used. The base map, which was used in assembling the data, is the Ministry of Natural Resources Land Information Ontario/ Natural Resource Values Information System base map. Data layers and attributes: As can be seen in the ArcMap legend, there are many layers in the Surficial Geology of Southern Ontario GIS map. Also, individual layers may have many attribute columns which can be used for visualizing or querying the data. The layers and attributes are fully described in the comprehensive user document, but some significant information is provided in Table 2 for convenience. The layers are ArcInfo coverages, the data format traditionally used by ArcInfo. Table 1: Contents of DVD-ROM (decimal degrees data) Top Folder Folder Sub-Folder Contents av3_legends coverages Arcview 3.x.avl legend files All ArcInfo coverages. Documentation e00_files fonts hillshade layerfiles User document Readme metadata Project report (Geological and technical) Licence agreement and Getting Started Detailed metadata ArcInfo export files for all vector coverages Font file required for point symbology. Must be loaded by user. Shaded relief Layer files used to display proper symbology in creating the.mxd file. map.mxd dd.prj readme metadata ArcMap project file (.mxd) found at the root directory of the DVD. Projection file. How to use the data ( Getting Started ) Metadata for MRD128 Revised 5

6 Table 2: Map layers and selected attributes Layer Attribute Description SGU_POLY Surficial geology unit polygons, which classify the earth's surface by the surface or nearsurface geological material. SINGLE_NEW_ID The geological unit number assigned to the polygon from the provincial legend, for example 1, 2, 5, 5a, 5b. SINGLE_PRIM_MAT Single primary material. A single word providing information regarding the most prevalent material present within a given area, for example "sand". SINGLE_PMAT_MOD Single primary material modifier. Provides a more refined, single-word description of the lithological classification of the primary material, for example "sandy". PRIM_MAT PRIM_MAT_MOD SINGLE_PRIM_GEN FORMATION PERMIABILITY Primary material. Provides information regarding the most prevalent material present within a given area, for example "silt, sand". Multiple words are allowed. Primary material modifier. Provides a more refined description of the lithological classification of the primary material, for example "organic-bearing". Multiple words are allowed. Single primary genesis. Provides an interpretation of the depositional environment within which the primary material was deposited, using single words, for example "glaciofluvial". Provides information regarding the formal geological formation to which a primary material belongs, for example "Tavistock Till". Provides information about the permeability of the sediments in a rank from high, medium to low. SGU_POINT FEATURE_CODE ORIENTATION Captures oriented point information such as drumlins and striae. A character field containing a feature code such as drumlin or flute. A numeric field containing each feature's orientation. For example, for feature codes "strd", glacial striae, direction of ice movement known, this field contains a number from 0 to 360 degrees. SGU_LINE FEATURE_CODE Captures oriented lines such as eskers and beaches. A character field containing a feature code such as "eskern", esker, direction of flow known or "bluff". SGU_MOR Displays areas of hummocky topography as well as areas mapped as moraines. SGU_MISC SGU_ANNO Captures polygonal geology features not otherwise captured, for example areas of dunes (fdune). Captures geological annotation. OGS_PITS Captures gravel pit and quarry locations. SHADED RELIEF An image of the shaded relief derived from Ministry of Natural Resources' digital elevation model. INDEX Provides information about the individual map tiles used to generate the seamless coverage. BASE MAP LAYERS (water, roads, municipal boundaries) From Land Information Ontario and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. 6

7 Layers in the ArcMap project (mxd file): The ArcMap project file (.mxd) provided for this data set was created so that the user can simply double click and open a completed map displaying all the layers and information captured in this data set. Table 3 lists the layers found in the ArcMap legend, the GIS layers or coverages used to create that ArcMap layer, the attribute displayed and the layerfile used. Table 3: Layers in ArcMap project (.mxd). ArcMap Layer coverage attribute layerfile index polygon index ORG index polygon.lyr annotation.geol sgu_anno lakes polygon lakes roads arc roads municipal arc municipal ogs_pits point ogs_pits FEATURE_CODE ogs_pits point.lyr sgu_point point sgu_point FEATURE_CODE sgu_point point.lyr sgu_line arc sgu_line FEATURE_CODE sgu_line arc.lyr sgu_misc polygon sgu_misc FEATURE_CODE sgu_misc polygon.lyr sgu_mor polygon sgu_mor FEATURE_CODE sgu_mor polygon.lyr sgu_poly arc sgu_poly.aat FEATURE_CODE sgu_poly arc.lyr sgu_poly polygon sgu_poly.pat SINGLE_NEW_ID sgu_poly polygon.lyr sgu_polybedrock polygon sgu_poly.pat SINGLE_NEW_ID sgu_polybedrock polygon.lyr material sgu_poly.pat SINGLE_PRIM_MAT material.lyr permeability sgu_poly.pat PERMEABILITY permeability.lyr formation sgu_poly.pat FORMATION formation.lyr genesis sgu_poly.pat SINGLE_PRIM_GEN genesis.lyr shade 7

AGGREGATE RESOURCES OF ONTARIO (ARO) METADATA

AGGREGATE RESOURCES OF ONTARIO (ARO) METADATA GENERAL INFORMATION Official Name of the Data Set or Information Holding: Aggregate Resources of Ontario Acronyms are Used to Identify the Data Set or Information